Our first poetry publication: Our Beautiful Names. Writing Through Fences chapbook has been printed. So excited and thankful for everyones work.
Congratulations to all the writers, MarkTime and Ross Donlon for publishing, Kristalo Hrysicos for writing workshop assistance, Ann de Hugard for editing assistance, Jean Cunningham for design, Paul Shapcott for printing, the artist N for cover image, Melissa Luckashenko and Arnold Zable for the blurbs, Jenny Haines for making it possible and all our supporters.
We will launch Our Beautiful Names on the 6th of December in Melbourne.
Please keep that date free and come along to celebrate.
We will post details of the launch in the next few days.
Owl Publishing takes great pleasure in inviting you to the launch of its latest publication of two chapbooks
(the first in a new series of chapbooks aiming to present a diverse range of poetry by Greek-Australian writers)
A Winter’s Journey
by Dimitris Tsaloumas
and Lost in Mid-Verse
by Angela Costi
Well-known and loved writer Dmetri Kakmi (Mother Land)
will launch the books
Date: Tuesday, 18 November, 6.30pm for a 7.00 start
Venue: Collected Works Bookshop
Nicholas Building
Level 1, 37 Swanston Street,
Melbourne City
Please come and enjoy an evening of poetry among fellow-writers and poetry lovers.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP by 16th November (for catering purposes)
Enquiries to Helen on 9596 6064, or 0400 202 187
Email: owlbooks@bigpond.com
This New & Selected Poems is a substantial and long-awaited compilation from one of Australia’s most accomplished poets, a retrospective spanning more than thirty years.
The New Poems section, ‘Towards the Equator’, represents Alex Skovron’s sixth book-length collection and signals a return to the formal variety that has been a hallmark of his work. As always, a distinct Eurocentric sensibility sits alongside an engagement with Western art and culture. All six collections are characterized by close attention to craft, versatility of tone and technique, and a seriousness of intent seasoned at times with wry humour or playful wit. We encounter a rich assortment of voices, moods and scenarios as the landscapes of experience, the playgrounds of the mind and the theatres of the self are negotiated.
Music, memory, philosophy, the creative spirit and language itself are focal-points; the dimensions of faith and the quest for self-knowledge colour the shifting light; while Eros, in various guises, accompanies many of the poems across the plains and borderlands of the imagination. Recurring motifs in Skovron’s poetry include the perpetual tussle with history, the search for a clarity of vision, and our often ambiguous relationship with identity, with each other, and with the enigmas of time and remembrance.
Federation Square – Melbourne
Saturday, 15 November 2014 2-4pm
Either at The Atrium or Beer DeLuxe upstairs
Dear poets and lovers of poetry
As 2014 approaches at the end this is the last event for the year with three amazing poets, Esther Oliver, Sean O’Callaghan and Avril Bradley
Plus our usual open mic reader section
Esther Oliver
Esther is represented in The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, The Orange Tree: Australian Poetry to the Present Day and in 15 other anthologies/magazines/ journals. Performed at a Writers Festival in Melbourne, and at an Education Weekend talking about NIA Dance (NIA stands for ‘Neuro Muscular Integrative Action’, which uses Music, Dance, Martial Arts and Yoga modalities to energize the Body and Spirit). She has performed on ABC Radio and at Writers Festivals, schools, colleges, universities, and recently gave a speech welcoming New Citizens to Australia at an Australian Citizenship Ceremony. She hasn’t finished writing her book yet, as she is busy being a sports competitor at Pan Pacific Games Masters Rowing, ranked 3rd in the world in sprint trials, and is busy with 3 children, tutoring, and coaching Radio students for a community radio station. Her published short stories and articles have been about everything from a walking stick to Vitamin D deficiency and NIA Dance (which she teaches).
Sean O’Callaghan
Sean O’Callaghan is an Irish born Melbourne based poet, an extraordinary poet.
He is mixing his poetry with animation and multiple media, videos etc where he has been accompanied by other artists. His most poems have been published in the magazine “Unsual Work” edited and published by ΠΟ and the Collective Effort Press. Twho characteristic poems by Sean are well gven in the following links
Avril Bradley
Avril Bradley’s poetry is published Australia wide, in magazines and journals.
She has published 3 poetry books and edited two collections of children’s poetry.
Her latest collection is ‘inter alia’(Ginninderra Press 2012)
A collaboration with her children and grandchildren, of writings and illustrations, entitled ‘Errant sheep and cats on the fiddle’ is forthcoming in 2014. She is working on a collection of dance poems entitled ‘The Fragile Geometry of Dancers.’ In 2013 she won the Poetica Christi competition ‘Searching the depths’ was placed both first and second in ‘The Tango Australis’ competiton and published in ‘Award Winning Australian Writing. ( Melbourne Books.)
Poetry@fedsquare is coming to you the third Saturday of every month (except December and January) under the Federation Square and the auspices of Multicultural Arts Victoria.
Poetry@fedsquare is coming to you the third Saturday of each month (February-November)
Contact details
Dimitris Troaditis
poetryfedsquare@gmail.com
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Poetry@fedsquare is an event by Fed Square
Poetry@fedsquare is also proudly supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria
To Koskino 